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right, so i thought i would start up this page to show the re build of my cortina and maybe get some advice and thoughts along the way...
heres the car as i brought it a few years back; its a pretty early one, 1972 pre-facelift xl model with the 1600 crossflow. daytona yellow, recaro seats (I'm guessing from a granada maybe?), very solid, original and well looked after. doesnt look to have had any welding in the past!
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brachunky
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mk3 cortina rebuildbrachunky
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What a shame that happening, you must have been gutted  . Whats the plan of action to get her back on the road? |
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teaboy
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That's a shame, you're lucky to have gotten away with that.
Have the repair started?
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to be honest it kinda looked worse than it was. the previous owner had caked the engine bay in thick black stonechip. this protected the paint and steel underneath from the brunt of the flames and heat. in fairness the stone chip was creating so much thick, black, acrid smoke, that the flames struggled to get enough oxygen to take a proper hold of the car, and luckily it was contained just to the engine bay.
since then, as you can see from one of the pics, i stripped all the ancillaries out and spent some time cleaning and scraping the bay clean.
i have spent the last year or two collecting parts to rebuild it, whilst the car was in storage. i have now tracked down the bulk of the parts that i will be needing. the hardest part to find was actually the washer bottle, belive it or not! due to it being a pre-facelift model, with a very early and square bottle, i ended up with a new old stock one, which realy was expensive!
in terms of paint, obviously the bay, new bonnet and front wings are going to need spraying. although when i brought the car, the paintwork was letting it down (some time in its past its had a quick blow-over), so now i have the perfect excuse to give it a full respray!
i now have the cortina in my workshop, and have just pulled the engine out (pics are coming soon!). I'm planning on rebuilding the block, its the original engine, and all in all it hasnt faired to badly.
i am pretty sure that daytona yellow was its original colour, and was planning on going down that rout, although, now i have been turning over in my head the possiblity of going for maize yellow instead. I'm not sure at this point if i am going to keep the car for myself, or sell on when its finished (too much money tied up in it). i would appriciate opinions at this point! obviously I'm thinking that a bright yellow datona car may have a limited market, and be a bit of a 'marmite' senario. having said that i do personaly like to see an original colour on a car, especialy one as solid, original and honest as this car. maize yellow is a very desirable colour, and may tone the loudness down a little. its a very tempting option.........
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I would stick with daytona, originality always helps value and it is one of the classic 70's ford colours.
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eurogranada
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Nice machine you've got there!
Colourwise: go bold, go daytona!!
But then I'm drawn to bold colours...
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...and when is all finished and back on the road get one of these..  Lovely car. Those Coke bottle hips. It's like a viva hb (just not quite as classy......  |
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heres a few pics of progress...     took the engine out with my new toy! beats doing it outside in the dark and sticking the telihandler through the windscreen! engine now seized, but doesnt look as bad as i remembered it being.   engine bay looking pretty empty now! since these pics i have finished stripping and started sand blasting the bay. just got to get some more abrasive now to finish, then can get a good coat of epoxy primer sprayed on. by the way what does everyone reccomend for sandblasting? i have a pressure pot, i tend to use a medium-coarse chrushed glass, but lately have been mixing it with kiln dried block paving sand to keep costs down and make it strech further... |
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Bad luck there.
Yep I use a pressure pot with crushed glass - be very careful of using sand and getting silicosis..Not nice.
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i try to keep the extraction fans running and use a decent mask/respirator, but yes i think glass is the way to go. out of interest where do you get yours from? i have been buying 25kg bags from online and its a pretty expensive way to go....
thanks
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I would stick to the original colour especially if you are thinking of selling it on once completed - originality will always sell a motor to the right buyer over any 'in trend' colour change and unless you are going all the way and stripping the car out completely colour changes are always difficult to execute even if you are using a similar colour tone range - I repaired many Mk 3's in period throughout the 70's / 80's with accident damage / rotten sills / repaints etc along with hundreds of door hinge pin failures on the offside front doors - simple to work on - they will become very sought after in years to come has the styling is now close to reaching a cult status amongst collectors.
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andy-v
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Glad you saved it that could have ended very badly!! it was a good looking car so I vote standard colour!! you may even be able to get some TV/Film work with it
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nice car that one, if i was to sell on once completed then i would be aiming around the 8k mark in an ideal world- good to know that i should be getting my money back out of the car without having too much trouble.... |
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the previous owner did some film work with it- must have been around 4 years ago- although i never actually saw it on tv. i do have a collection of classics and was hoping to try and get into tv work. this would make it worth-while me hanging onto them- otherwise its a shame to have cars sitting in barns gathering dust, and may help me to fund the restoration costs. but to be honest, although i have had a bit of a look online, i don't realy have a clue how to get my foot in the door with regards to getting them on tv. any advice here is greatly appreciated!! thanks, matt |
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I would stick to the original colour especially if you are thinking of selling it on once completed - originality will always sell a motor to the right buyer over any 'in trend' colour change and unless you are going all the way and stripping the car out completely colour changes are always difficult to execute even if you are using a similar colour tone range - I repaired many Mk 3's in period throughout the 70's / 80's with accident damage / rotten sills / repaints etc along with hundreds of door hinge pin failures on the offside front doors - simple to work on - they will become very sought after in years to come has the styling is now close to reaching a cult status amongst collectors. yep i now have had enough people telling me to go down the original route. daytona yellow it is then! i have to say, maize yellow looks great on this shape, and is a rare colour to see a mk3 in, but then again the same can be said about daytona, and at the end of the day, this car is so original, low owners, never welded, lowish miles, i gotta keep it on track. i know what you mean about the mk3 shape, think the appreciation realy is rising nowadays, and hopefully the value too! i cant get enough of these mk3's, i have 3 now, this, a 2-door gt and a 2000e - fantastic cars to work on, but parts are starting to become scarce and expensive to get hold of now. |
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. Whats the plan of action to get her back on the road?
